Nauman AliNauman Ali

APIMATIC

APIMATIC

Nauman Ali is an API enthusiast who dived into the API world early into his career. Ever since his days at college, he was deeply interested in how systems interact and how the interactions between them can be optimized to produce better connections between digital entities. Working on a similar project he realized how hard it gets for developers to work with unfamiliar systems when working on these integrations and this opened him up to the world of Developer Experience and making APIs easy to consume. Since then he took off his journey with APIMatic, a New Zealand based startup set out to do the same. Nauman currently is leading the Developer Experience Portal and the CodeGen project at APIMatic and in his quest has met API Evangelists from around the world and has spoken at a number of conferences. He has developed a considerable insight into problems faced by both API Developers and consumer and can feel their pain and is set out on a mission to make life easy for both of them. In his free time, he loves watching football and is currently really sad about Ronaldo leaving his favorite club, Real Madrid.

An API Spec driven Developer Experience journeyAPIスペック駆動な開発者体験の旅

Developer Experience has taken center stage for a lot of API providers, with others following suit. In spite of it being an important part of the API lifecycle, it has been a tough nut to crack for a lot of API providers. The effort, time and cost required to achieve top-notch Developer Experience tend to be a big obstacle, while the various components getting out of sync just adds to the woes.
With the wide adoption of the API Specification as the single source of truth and the center stage of most API endeavors, it is only fitting for it to be the engine behind fixing the Developer Experience woes of API providers.
I will walk you through the journey of achieving top-notch Developer Experience by maximizing the use of the API Specifications. First, I will talk about the components that make a Developer Experience great. I'll then walk through the improvements and additions that can be made to API Specifications that leads to great Developer Experience components. Following that, I’ll dive into using the specification to generate Guides, Documentation, SDKs and Code samples, and will compare the different tooling out there that can help you achieve that. Finally, I'll highlight the advantages of automatic generation of these components over manually creating them and will present an internal case study on how we've used that at APIMatic.

DevRelCon Tokyo

DevRelCon and DevXcon are a global series of events, created by Hoopy, to provide a forum for developer relations and developer experience professionals share with other practitioners. Beginning in London in 2015, there are now also editions in San Francisco, Tokyo and China. Read more about DevRelCon.